Monday, May 4, 2009

Prepping the Preps

So today I caught a bit of a cleaning/baking/prepping bug. The house is clean, my Wifey bread is on it's second rise, and my cupboards are bare. Seriously, I'm guessing I have a least $150 worth of boxed food type items on my kitchen counter. Probably more.

I found a lot of the usual suspects: Pasta Roni, Mac & Cheese, microwave popcorn. I also found some things that sort of befuddle me. 2 types of Jello my son is allergic too, 6 boxes of potatoes au gratin, and about 85 various seasoning packs. Not to mention several bags of Shrimp flavored Top Ramen. Not only do I not eat Ramen, I don't like seafood.

Since the 2 weeks worth of groceries I bought in case of the flu that dare not speak its name (thanks Hermit) are still sitting in the corner of my dining room, I think it's time to weed through it all and banish some to my newly cleaned out preps area in my garage shelving. I just don't need 4 boxes of white cheese shells in my pantry.

TOR: It does make rotating easier. I was thinking about writing a list of the stuff in my preps and taping to the inside of a counter just to keep track to I don't keep buying cans of sliced carrots when I already have 10.

Rob: I will probably do that with bigger things like bags of rice, flour or sugar, but most the rest I'm able to go through it's just a matter of time. The jello I can always use, the Boy just can't have any.

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